Robert, WA5CAB, also very kindly sent me a TIF file of the
data sheet for an RCA
8122A transmitting tube.

Need a custom transformer, or just interested in how they're constructed?
Here is an article on deconstructing,
disassembling, designing, and making your own. Thanks to Paul
Kraemer for the PDF file!

On May 10, 2010, there was a significant outbreak of tornadoes in
Oklahoma. Here is one of them, photographed by Melanie Herbert,
on Interstate 40 between Banner Road and US Highway 81, west of
Oklahoma City:

Click on the image or the link above for more information about
our afternoon yesterday.

The ARRL used to put out a little 4-page booklet titled "Your Novice
Accent", to provide guidance on operating procedures to newly-licensed
operators. I sure wish I'd had a copy of it when I got my Novice
ticket, back in 1962. Here's a scan of it.

If you're interested in storm spotting, or in listening to what's happening
while there's severe weather in your area, you might want to print and post
the relevant pages from this site:USA storm
spotter radio frequencies, by state for reference.
These may be a bit out of date, but could provide a good starting point.

Melody and I served as ambassadors from the Kingdom of Ansteorra to the Kingdom
of Drachenwald last August (2007), at the pleasure of Ebergardis and Ulsted,
who then were King and Queen.
Here are our credentials.

Mistress Hilde (Roxann Hatch) has been kind enough to send me two of her
fine pamphlets on cheesemaking for inclusion and publication here. They are
in .pdf format, so you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader or something else
that can read and render a .pdf document.

Lots of amateur radio operators ("hams") work with electronics in their day jobs, too. Many of them have stories. I'm trying to collect them. Look for them here. If you'd like to contribute, please send mail to me here: mikea@mikea.ath.cx .

Mr. T, W9LBB, told about working at a capacitor factory. It was
hair-raising in more ways than one. Read about it here.

Mr. T, W9LBB, also was involved in testing really big
high-voltage power supplies. That story is here.

This one happened to me. If you're a news crew and you need bright lights, how do you know if that wall socket will supply enough Rich, Chunky Amps? This is one way, but I don't recommend it.

Ben Dover wrote about taking the FCC Second Class Radiotelegraph Operator's exam, back in 2006, here.

Here's another that happened to me,
illustrating a side of amateur radio that does not make us hams
look good. The bad actor(s) got a comeuppance, too.

I suppose that you could use the heat from the power tubes in your final to make coffee. Here is a rig that could have done it easily.

The National Security Agency has declassified some books recently.
Spartans in Darkness, one of those books, is a (heavily
redacted) history of SIGINT operations in Viet Nam. Even with the very many
deletions, it still is illuminating.